1181 - 1190 AD
"Rory O Connor Resigns. / A Celtic Kingdom For Over 4,000 Years."
1181
AD
Hugh de Lacy the Anglo Norman Baron
who was acting for Henry 11 in Ireland and who had married the
daughter of
*115.Rory O Connor the
56th King of Connacht and
183rd King
of Ireland founded a Priory for the "Canons Regulars" at
Duleek in Co. Meath in the south
- east of
Northern Leinster and also constructed the Castle Dermot in
Co. Kildare
in Central Southern
Leinster where two miles to the south
- east of there are the ruins of Ballymoon Castle, and o
1182 AD 110. Donnell Mor O Brian the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain King of Northern Munster / Thomond who was the 47th King of Cashel / Munster constructed the Tipperary Cathedral and also founded Kilcooly Abbey in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province for the "Cistercian" monks, and this is where the remains of Piers Butler, who was to be the English Earl of Ormonde, together with his parents and his son, are interred and the Holy Cross Abbey in Co. Tipperary was at this time also taken over by the "Cistercian" Order, from the "Benedictine" Order.
Despite
Henry 11's proclamation that his Anglo - Norman Barons were not to
"socialize" with the
Irish Septs, personal moves were afoot by the
Anglo
- Norman Barons themselves to consolidate their
own "family" connections with the main Irish Septs
and vice versa wth William de
Burgh /
de Burgo / Burke, marrying the daughter of
110.Donnell Mor
O Brian the Heberian
Dal gCais
Ui mBriain
47th King
of Munster who also constructed a castle at
Borough / Borrisoleigh in the territory of the
Heberian Ui Luigheach
Sept in
Co. Tipperary in the north - east
of the Munster Province
where the remains are still there to be seen today, and to the north - west of
there is also an inscribed "table tomb" of the de Burghs / Burkes themselves in
the ruins of the
Glankeen
Church.
Dermott
Mac Carthy
the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil King of
Southern Munster / Desmond /
Des Mhumhain
/
Southern Munster
had
also
married the daughter
of Thomas Bluet
/ Bleutt / Blewitt another
of the the
Anglo - Norman Barons,
whose descendants can still be found in that region in
Co. Cork and also nearby in Co. Limerick.
The
Anglo - Norman Barons began the construction of the actual township of
Kilkenny
in Co, Kilkenny /
Ossory in the south - west
of Southern Leinster along
with all of the other
settlements towns now
in the possession of the numerous Anglo - Norman Barons
who had their confiscated Estates there and where set up there in a region that was mostly made up of
"meadowlands,"
and the monks at the Cistercian Abbey of
Dun Brody in
nearby
Co. Wexford in the south -
east of Southern Leinster
gave all
of their land, previously taken back from
Strongbow 11 by
Henry
11, to the Abbot of St. Mary's Refuge in
Dublin, who
then built an Abbey there with a right
of "Sanctuary."
The
O Canes / O Kanes
/ Ui Cahans, who were Heremonian
Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel nEogain Chiefs who had their territory in the north - east of the Ulster
Province, constructed an
"Augustinian" monastery this year at Dungiven in
Co.
Derry, while another
"Cistercian Abbey"
was also built at Boyle in Co. Roscommon
in the east of the
Connacht Province.
1183 AD *115.Rory O Connor the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Ui Conchobair 56th King of Connacht and 183rd King of Ireland was totally disheartened by the continuing "onslaught" and encroachments by the Anglo - Norman Barons, and also by the fact that his "own sons" had also now turned "against him," so he retired to the Cong Abbey in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province were he was to stay for the next 15 years until he was to "die" a natural death in 1198 AD leaving all of the Irish Gaelic Septs basically "leaderless" during this time. They were to now have no real overall Gaelic Milesian Irish "leader" in Ireland, and great "internal turmoil" would now occur between the O Connor Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Ui Conchobair Septs themselves in a never ending struggle just for the "overall authority" now in Connacht Province alone, which would eventually lead on to the eventual loss of the O Connors having any further "relevance" at all in the prospects of a Gaelic Ireland.
Bec O Hara
the
Heberian Cianacht King
of Northern Connacht
was slain by
Connor O Dermody / O Darmody)
O Diarmada
at
Loch mac Feradach.
1184 AD Hugh de Lacy, the Anglo - Norman Baron, who had been allocated the O Melaghlins Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill Clann Cholmain kingdom of Meath / Midhe in Northern Leinster in Ireland by Henry 11, the Norman Angevin English King, constructed another English Norman castle to the west, to strengthen his position against the various Irish Septs there at Killare / Cill Air in Co. Westmeath in the south - west of Northern Leinster.
1185 AD Sir Henry de Leon / Dillon / Diolun, the Anglo - Norman Breton Baron, was to be the "first" of that name in Ireland, whose descendants were to eventually form into 3 branches, after he also was initially allotted confiscated Estates in the O Melaghlins Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill Clann Cholmain kingdom of Meath / Midhe in Co. Meath, Co. Westmeath and Co. Longford, and they were also to settle into the adjacent nearby kingdom of the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Septs in the Connacht Province on the western side of the River Shannon into Co. Roscommon in the east and into Co. Mayo in the west.
With *115.Rory O Connor the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai 183rd King of Ireland now permanently out of the way, and the Irish Septs without a "nominated" Tanaiste / heir apparent or "elected overall leader" of their own, Henry 11 the Anglo - Norman English King was to send over to Ireland his youngest son, Prince John "Lackland" who was now only 19 years of age who he had previously created a Norman Knight, and gave him 300 Norman Knights of his own to take with him, intending in the future that he would become the English King of Ireland. John Comyn who was the newly appointed Anglo - Norman English Catholic Archbishop of Dublin was sent ahead to prepare the way for him, and Lucius 111 the "Pope" in Rome was petitioned to also recognize him as the "official" new King of Ireland, but it did not happen as Henry 11 expected. Ralph Glanville who was now Henry 11's Justiciar in England was to see him off to Ireland, and accompanied by Gilbert Pipard / Peppard and Bertram de Bheardun / Verdon 2 of the Anglo - Norman Barons, while Theobold Fitz Walter le Buitleir - the butler was to be his "closest" companion, along with William de Burgh / Burke the "direct" ancestor of the Mac William Burkes. He was also accompanied by a large English Military Force, and on arriving he was advised that 110.Donnell Mor O Brian the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain 47th King of Cashel / Munster was now the leader of the most "formidable" Irish Sept in Ireland, so his first encounter was to lay "siege" to him and his Heberian Dalcassian warriors who instead "defeated" his personal formidable English Gall / foreign contingent. The initial defeat of these particular foreign English Galls by the Heberian Irish Septs went a long way to create a severely "frustrated and angry" Prince John "Lackland", who had been hoping to stand out as the "overall" English leader of "authority" in Ireland, but due to this immediate personal "defeat" and also other personal factors, especially his total "arrogance" towards the other Anglo - Norman Barons, who were already well set up in Ireland, and during the 8 months that he was now to spend in Ireland, not one Irish Chief or Irish King was to come forward and "submit" to him.
Hugh de Lacy the Anglo - Norman Baron who Henry 11 had left in control of the O Melaghlins' Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill Clann Cholmain kingdom of Meath / Midhe in the south of Northern Leinster, was still the most "pre - eminent" Anglo - Norman Baron in Ireland who by this period in time now also had many Irish "allies," and looking for someone to blame for his misfortune, Prince John "Lackland" was convined that Hugh de Lacy was the one who was responsible for him not attaining the "high" status that he believed he was entitled to and his opportunity to become the King of Ireland, and he would continue to carry this "belief" with him in the many years that lie ahead and seek his "personal" opportunity, if it was to arrive, to take his "revenge" on him for this, despite the fact that he had personally "passed" over the other Anglo - Norman Barons. Due to his insipid personality he had tried to achieve control in Ireland just for his "own retinue" of Anglo - Norman Barons, while constructing his own castles at Ardfinnan, Lismore and Tibberaghny in the Munster Province, with these castles constructed "well away" from Hugh de Lacy's influence in the kingdom of Meath / Midhe, and he also built others around Waterford in Co. Waterford against the dominant influence of 110.Donnell Mor O Brian the 47th King of Cashel / Munster. Due to his usual continuing Norman Angevin "arrogance" and any lack of prudence or statesmanship he was to disregard the Irish Septs altogether, and made further land "confiscations" and allocations in Ireland against the interests also of his perceived Irish nemesis, 110.Donnell Mor O Brian of even more of the Heberian Dal gCais territories in Mogha's Half in Co. Clare, Co. Limerick and Co. Tipperary in Thomond / Northern Munster. He also "confiscated" and allotted adjoining territory in nearby Co. Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster to his "personal"cohorts, Theobold Fitz Walter - le buitleir, William de Burgh and Philip le Worchester. These later "confiscations" and confiscated allocations were carried out in a "desperate" effort to try and improve his continuing immediate "lagging" profile in Ireland, and especially in "opposition" to the continuing strength of the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain Sept in Mogha's Half still under theledership of 110.Donnell Mor O Brian.
Further to the north, above the O Melaghlins' previous Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niall Clann Cholmain kingdom of Meath / Midhe, which was under the control of his other perceived "nemesis," Hugh de Lacy the Anglo - Norman Baron who was acting for Prince John's father, Henry 11, he also allocated further Irish land to Bertram de Bheardun / Verdon the Anglo - Norman Baron who was his personal Lord Marshall and to Gilbert Pipard / Peppard another of his personal Anglo - Norman Barons, and still later on he also added to these "confiscations" with further allocations in Co. Louth, which was even further "north," but still in the north - east of Northern Leinster, and also the Irish Septs territories in the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch kingdom of Orghialla / Oriel in Co. Monaghan and Co. Armagh in Southern Ulster. Once again the only "condition" agreed to secure these territories was that they had to "annihilate" the Irish Septs in those regions and occupy the territory on his behalf, and further down in Southern Leinster he also "united" Glendalough in the south - east in Co. Wicklow with the See in Dublin in Co. Dublin in the north - east.
Henry 11 on
becoming "aware" of Prince John "Lackland's ongoing failures
"recalled"
him back to
England. (Gerald of
Wales
was also 'to be among his personal retinue who was to write a book about Ireland.)
Prince John "Lackland" was to depart from Ireland on
September 17th as a very "disappointed"
imitation of a ruler, with the melancholy
realization of what he had actually achieved, "nothing," while
Pope
Lucius 111 had also "refused" to allow him to be acknowledged as the King of
Ireland and had instead given him the the title of
Dominus Hibernia / Lord of Ireland
only, and in reality his whole expedition into Ireland had ended
up as a
"complete fiasco." Despite Prince John "Lackland's" overall
"failure" to assert his
authority in Ireland, once again numerous
English "confiscations" had occurred of further Irish
Septs territories with the added increasing
"violence" that followed. These territories had been held by the many "individual" Irish
Septs under the
"Irish
Brehon Law" on behalf of all of their Irish Seps, who were totally reliant on the
"aristocratic warriors" among them
"leading" and giving direction to any of these particular Irish Septs.Theobold
Fitz Walter - le buitleir,
Prince John's personal butler, was
to eventually found the English Butler family in Co. Kilkenny
/ Ossory
in the south - west of Southern Leinster, who later
on were also to become the "very" English Earls of Ormonde,
after he had previously allocated him the conficated "eastern" part of the old
Heberian Eoghanacht kingdom of
Limerick
/ Luimneach which was nevertheless "ever" to be realised
by them.
Despite this, the Butlers later became "dominant" in the
Irish Heberian
kingdom of
Ormond
/ Aur Mhumhain
/ North Eastern Munster),
which also overlapped territory in
Co. Kilkenny and nearby
Co. Tipperary
in the north - east of the
Munster Province, the original territory of the
Heberian Dal gCais
Ui Bloid Ui Turlough O Kennedys
descended from
105.Duncan
/ Donncuan, an older brother to
*105.Brian Boru - of the Tributes who had been the
175th High King
of Ireland.
Donnell Mac Gilla Patrick / Fitz Patrick, the Heremonian King of the Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla Sept who had their territory at Ossory / Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster, "died" this year.
Meanwhile, John de Courcy, the Anglo - Norman Baron, who now personally controlled the confiscated territory by force of arms in the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Fiatach kingdom of Ulaid in the north - east of the Ulster Province, this year allotted the Abbot of Downpatrick in the south - east of Ulster Province the right to the fees of the Ferry that was operating there.
110.Donnell Mor O Brian, the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain King of Northern Munster / Thomond and 47th King of Cashel / Munster, acting once again in his own "personal" interests and still more then ever "anticipating" gaining the overall Kingship of Ireland for himself then played right into the hands of the Anglo - Norman English Barons who had since convinced him that they would "assist" him to gain greater overall "authority" by combining with him into besieging his Irish "opposition" to the overall position of the Gaelic Kingships in the form of the weakened Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Ui Conchobair O Connor Sept who were by now in total disarray over who now had the "overall authority" in their own personal kingdom in the Connacht Province due to the seemingly disinterest of *115.Rory O Connor the "last" and 183rd King of Ireland. After the Anglo Norman Barons pandered to 110.Donnell Mor O Brian's wishes they then engaged their "switching policy," by siding with the O Connor Chiefs also "against" him and plundered his territory in his Ui mBriuin kingdom of Thomond / Northern Munster and his fortress at Killaloe in Co. Clare, in the north - east of the Munster Province, destroying the churches and the residences there. The Anglo - Norman Barons also were to now continue on with this successful "switching" policy, going from one Irish Tuath / Family region to the other, which continued to "divide" and "stifle" any chance of "unity" by any of the remaining "leading" Irish Septs, and also severely "reduced" the number of Irish "aristocratic warriors" in each of the Irish Septs to continue the "resistance," and this game of "divide and conquer" especially only further "weakened" the Irish position and resolve due to the ever "declining" number of their actual "aristocratic warriors," which naturally suited the English purpose and was also to reduce the aristocratic warrior "gene bank" in the Irish Septs in the future.
John de Courcy,
the
Anglo - Norman Baron,
who was now well and truly set up in
the "north - east" in the
Heremonian Dal Fiatach Septs
kingdom of
Ulaid
in the east of the Ulster Province,
now made a "tactical
error," when he set out from the territory there in the
Ulster Province
that was now well and truly under
his control, with an expeditionary force of English Galls to attack the
Irish Septs further "out" from that region and he crossed over the River Shannon to the
west into the
Heremonian Dal
Cuinn
Ui Briuin Ai
Siol Muireadhach
/ Sil Murray
Ui Conchobair
O Connors' kingdom in the
Connacht Province with this huge force. All this attack did was to
ensure that
110.Donnell Mor O Brian,
the Heberian Dal gCais
47th King
of Cashel / Munster,
and the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
Ui
Briuin Septs in the
Connacht Province
would "combine" their followers once again
to "resist" this particular English onslaught, and these 2
important
Gaelic Milesian Irish
Septs were to comb
after gathering there "together" and they
besieged the Anglo - Norman English Galls set up there in the Corlieu
Mountains in the territory of the Heremonian Dal Cuinn
O
Rourke Ui Briuin Breifne kingdom of West Breifne in
Co. Leitrim in Northern
Connacht, who thoroughly "defeated" them.
1186 AD Rory O Laverty / Ruaidri Ua Laithbheartaigh was now the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King of Aileach and the Tanaiste / heir apparent of Tir Eogain / Co. Tyrone in the Ulster Province against the ongoing conflicting interests of his close kinsmen the Cenel nEogain Mac Loughlins and the Cenel nEogain O Nialls.
Meanwhile
Hugh
de Lacy, the
Anglo - Norman Baron,
who was now in "complete" control "by force" of the O
Melaghlin's Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern"
Ui Niaill
Clann Cholmain
kingdom of Meath / Midhe
in the south of Northern
Leinster, who was also acting directly for
Henry 11
the Norman English King, was
to meet his "end" quite simply, when he
was
slain by a single
Irishman for
"desecrating"
94.St.
Columbcille’s Church at
Durrow in
Co. Offaly
in the north - west of Southern Leinster,
were he was
intending to "construct" another castle on this most revered
Irish site.
William de Burgh / Burke the Anglo - Norman Baron, had previously married a daughter of 110.Donnel Mor O Brian the Heberian Dal gCais King of Northern Munster / Thomond who was also the 47th King of Cashel / Munster, which had given him a "leg up" in Ireland, but also muddied the waters for the other Gaelic Kings, as because of this particular family connection he also gave him permission for the foreign English Galls to construct a castle on the River Shannon estuary, in his own interests as "protection" against his Heberian kinsmen the Heberian Eoghanacht Septs opposition in the Munster Province the Mac Carthys who had their territory nearby in Co. Kerry in Desmond / Southern Munster.
The
English Norman Barons in
Ireland who were supposed to be acting for Henry 11
the Anglo - Norman English King, were centred around
Dublin
in the north - east of Southern Leinster,
where the region there would become more commonly known as
"The English Pale,"
Raymond
Le Gros
Fitz Gerald,
one of
the original Cambro - Norman Barons, who had initially assisted Strongbow 11 with
the beginning of the Anglo - Norman Invasion "died" this
year, and was
buried at Molana Abbey in Co. Waterford in the south -
east of the Munster Province,
and was to become the "direct" male line ancestor of the Grace families in
Ireland.
1187
AD
John de Courcy, the Anglo - Norman Baron,
who controlled the Heremonian Dal Fiatach
Septs kingdom of Ulaid by force, in the the east of the Ulster Province,
founded
the Inis Courcy Abbey on the
River Quoile near Stangford Loch / Loch Cuan in Co. Down
in the south - east of Ulster Province and bought over
further "Cistercian" monks from Furness Abbey in Lancashire
in England and installed them there.
1188
AD Brian O Brian
from
the Heberian Dal gCais
Ui Turlough Ui mBriain Sept
founded
a "Cistercian" Abbey at Abbey Feale in Co. Limerick
in the mid - north - west of the Munster Province
this year,
where the
Fitz Gerald
Cambro - Norman Barons
were to eventually construct Port Rinard Castle
there near the River Feale.
1189 AD As a sign of "worse" to come for the insigation of "The Irish Brehon Law," 117.Cathal Carrach O Connor was slain this year, who was the son of 116.Conor Maenmaige O Connor who was now the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai 57th King of Connacht, who would also meet his "end" this year, which would bring to a "conclusion" their "legitimate aristocratic warrior" particular "direct male" line to the Kingships from his father, *115.Rory O Connor the "last" 183rd King of Ireland, which would create further "untold turmoil" in the Connacht Province as the illegitimate 115.Cathal Crobhdhearg - of the Red Wine Hand O Connor would now become the "intermittent" Ui Briuin Ai 58th King of Connacht - with opposition until his "demise" much later on in 1224 AD. He was was an illegitimate son of *114.Turlough O Connor who had been the 55th King of Connacht and 181st King of Ireland, and a half - brother to *115,Rory O Connor who had been the 56th King of Connacht and the "last" and 183rd King of Ireland under "The Irish Brehon Law" after the Anglo - Norman Invasion.
The
Heberian
Dalcassian
Septs under 110.Donnell Mor O Brian
the King of Cashel / Munster in their on
- going "resistance" in the
Munster Province to the
continuing English - Norman "confiscations" of their territories
and kingdoms there, "destroyed" Prince John’s Castle at
Lismore in Co.
Waterford
in the south - east of the Munster Province where the
Irish Catholic Bishops of Lismore
where to take up residence later on.
William
le Mareschal -
the Marshall who was
the Marshall of England, and now also the English appointed
Earl of Leinster,
due to his marriage to
Isabelle /
Isabella, the daughter of
Strongbow 11 and 114.Aoife
/ Eve the daughter of
113.Diarmait
Mac Murrough na Gall - of the Foreigners, who had been given to him in marriage by
Henry 11, the Norman English King,
and he named the area there at New Ross in
Co. Wexford
in the south - east of
Southern Leinster, "Nova Villa Pontis,"
1190 AD The monks from the "Cistercian" Order this year honoured the canonized Irish Saint, St. Malachy O Morgair, for whom they had very high esteem, and on whom they had worked vigorously to have previously canonized by the "Pope" in Rome.
The Anglo - Norman Barons in the north - east, under John de Courcy, the Anglo - Norman Baron, this year constructed another castle at Carrickfergus / Carraig Fheargusa (The Rock of Fergus) in the previous Heremonian Dal Riada kingdom and Heremonian Dal Fiatach Ulaid kingdom at Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province.
Maurice Fitz Thomas Fitz Gerald the Anglo
- Norman Baron, also constructed a castle at Killorglin
in
Co. Kerry in the south - west of the
Munster Province and gave it over to the "Knight Templars" in the original territory of the
Heberian Eoghanacht Sept
of the
O Moriartys / Ui Muirchertach,
who had been previously "driven out" of there by their
Heberian
Eoghanacht Chaisil kinsmen, the
Mac Carthys, who were then
later to be "driven
out" themselves from there by the Anglo - Norman
Fitz Geralds
and Miles
de Cogan
another
of the Anglo - Norman Barons, also took possession of the district of
Kinsale in
Co. Cork in
Southern Munster, which
was to be later
passed on by a marriage to the de Courcy
Anglo - Norman Barons,
who were to construct the castle there.
110.Donnell
Mor
O Brian
the Heberian Dal gCais
Ui mBriain King of Northern
Munster
/ Thomond and
47th King of Cashel / Munster
began the building of
St. Mary's Cathedral in
Limerick in
Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west
of the Munster Province, which also contains part of his royal fortress in the shape of a
cross, and it too would be another of the Irish
Catholic Institutions to be taken over by the Ascendancy
Church of Ireland /
England at the "confiscation" of all the Irish Catholic
churches,
Institutions and lands by
Henry V111
in the early 16th Century AD.
110.Donnell Mor O Brian
was
also to found Killone Abbey nearby on the banks of Killone Loch in Co. Clare
on the western side of the River Shannon in the north - west of the
Munster Province.
115.Cathal Crobhdhearg - of the Wine Red Hand O Connor who was now the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai 58th King of Connacht - with opposition founded the "Cistercian" monastery of Abbey Knock Moy in the north - east of Clare Galway in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht in honour of his "defeat" of Almericus St. Lawrence, the Anglo - Norman Baron, at Athassel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, which is now also just a "ruin."
William de Burgh / Burke the Anglo - Norman Baron, also founded an "Augustinian" Priory and was to be interred there himself when he was to "die" later on.
The Anglo - Norman Barons, also built St. Audeon's Catholic Church in Dublin in Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster in honour of St. Audeon the patron saint of Rouen in France, which became the "first" Parish church and later on during the "confiscations" of all the Irish Catholic Institutions by Henry V111 in the early 16th Century AD, it also was taken over by the Ascendancy Church of Ireland / England.
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